KETTAMA: The Galway Producer Who Took G-Town Global

KETTAMA is the Galway-born, London-based producer Evan Campbell, and his story is a label story as much as a DJ story. He broke through in 2018 with B O D Y, co-founded G-Town Records with Shampain in 2019, and released his debut album Archangel on Steel City Dance Discs in 2025. If you want the sound of the current UK and Irish house wave in one catalogue, start here.

Who KETTAMA is

Campbell was born in Galway, Ireland, on May 30, 1997. He was DJing in Galway clubs by 17, holding down the backroom of the now-closed Carbon alongside his friend Coilí Collins, better known as Shampain. The two stayed collaborators for everything that followed.

The sound

The KETTAMA sound is loop-based, sample-heavy club music built in FL Studio: 90s trance and Euro-dance influences layered over hard-hitting house. It is euphoric on purpose, pitched at the peak of the night rather than the warm-up, which is why his records travel so well between rave rooms and festival stages.

The label story: G-Town Records

In 2019 Campbell and Shampain co-founded G-Town Records, named after a piece of Galway slang, as a home for their own music and other Irish artists. The label's first vinyl EP, G-TOWN 001, arrived in April 2021. Running his own imprint alongside releases on Steel City Dance Discs gave KETTAMA two lanes: G-Town for the raw hometown sound, Steel City for the bigger swings, including the debut album.

Key releases, dated

• 2018: Bucklyn Bridge EP on Brooklyn label HOMAGE. The track B O D Y took off after heavy support from Mall Grab and Annie Mac, and it is still the break that everything else builds on.
• 2019: Eastside Avenue on Shall Not Fade, and Temperature Rising.
• 2022: Close Your Eyes, a collaboration EP with Prospa.
• 2023: G-TOWN 004, Fallen Angel, and As You Were.
• 2025: Archangel, the debut album, on Steel City Dance Discs. It reached No. 6 in Ireland and charted in Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK.

Live, and why he matters now

After a sold-out homecoming show at the Galway International Arts Festival in 2023, KETTAMA made his Glastonbury, Coachella, and Boomtown debuts in 2024. In 2025 he joined the BBC Radio 1 Dance residency roster. The arc is the point: a Galway backroom DJ who built a label, then an album, then a residency, without sanding down the sound that got him there.

Where to start listening

• Start with B O D Y for the 2018 break, then Fallen Angel for the trance-leaning 2023 sound.
• Play Close Your Eyes with Prospa to hear how his catalogue connects to the wider UK wave, then Archangel front to back.
• File him under peak time when you build a party playlist: this is the energy a late slot chases.

Sources

Facts in this profile were checked against the KETTAMA entries on Wikipedia, AllMusic, and NTS, and against Steel City Dance Discs and G-Town Records release listings, in October 2026. No British Columbia connection is claimed or implied: KETTAMA has no BRCH or BC link, and this profile exists because his catalogue is part of the sound this series covers.